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Hester Prynne · As Blood Runs Black

EXERCISE 1 OF 128
Groove N
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0 / 128 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
PART V
PART AE
PART R
PART AL
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART AW
PART U
PART S23
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesHRBJVAE+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 10
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hester Prynne on drums

221 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-67 and ride through bars 68-69, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 36 and 66, and 18 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    146
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---|
Hester Prynne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 98 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N, V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-26 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-133 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hester Prynne?

235 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hester Prynne hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 24 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hester Prynne?

29 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED